World Writable Files Affecting github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/disk package, versions >=1.8.0 <1.12.9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKUBERNETESKUBERNETESSTAGINGSRCK8SIOCLIENTGODISCOVERYCACHEDDISK-174835
  • published25 Apr 2019
  • disclosed22 Apr 2019
  • creditjzebor

Introduced: 22 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-276  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/disk to version 1.12.9 or higher.

Overview

github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/disk is a Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to World Writable Files. When using the cached location specified by the --cache-dir option, all cache files written to this directory are written with world-writeable (rw-rw-rw-) permissions. The default location of this directory is $HOME/.kube/http-cache.

CVSS Scores

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